Kidney transplantation. Experience at the University Hospital José González, UANL in Monterrey, Mexico

In patients with end-stage renal disease, successful renal allotransplantation improves the quality of life and increases survival as compared with long-term dialysis treatment. To show our experience, effectiveness and results of renal transplantations at the University Hospital of UANL. A retrospective study of renal transplantation performed at University Hospital of UANL was done. The transplant cases from 1967 to July 2001 and January 2003 to June 2011 were included. 280 kidney transplants were performed in 264 patients, 146 men and 118 women; 201 from deceased donor and 79 from living donor. The patient survival at 1, 3, and 5 years was 98.8, 85.9 and 85.9%, respectively. The graft survival at 1, 3, and 5 years, censored for death with functioning graft, was 98.8, 85.7 and 74.9%, respectively. Our results, in this population with unfavorable socioeconomic conditions, are comparable to those obtained in other institutions.